Babbage (surname)

Babbage is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Benjamin Herschel Babbage (1815–1878), Australian engineer.
• Charles Babbage (1791–1871), English mathematician, mechanical engineer, and pioneering computer scientist
• Charles Whitmore Babbage (1842–1923), Australian embezzler and prominent citizen of Wanganui, New Zealand
• Dennis Babbage (1909-1991), English mathematician; see also D. W. Babbage
• Dugald Bromhead Babbage (1823–1881), Australian surveyor
• Eden Herschel Babbage (1844?–1924), prominent citizen of Roseville, New South Wales, Australia
• Herbert Ivan Babbage (1875–1916), New Zealand artist